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Location: Home....Smiling M Farms | reditorun - 2015-05-28 6:27 PM
How about - If you can't get your horse out of the trailer - tie his tail to a tree and drive off. OR If he comes out of the trailer too fast back up to the river bank and open the door.
I literally LOL'd at the last part! Are you kidding me? lol |
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Location: IM A DUDE!!!!!!! | avmalibu - 2015-05-28 11:36 AM This is meant to just be a funny lighthearted post so can we keep it that way? Anyways what's the worst (funniest) advice you've been given or the dumbest stereotypes you've heard of? For horses, dogs or any other pets.
Mine would probably be to watch out for my Border Collie pup because she's going to bite my heels (I don't understand that, all pups usually do this at some point because you're feet are moving and it looks like a fun toy, not because she's herding me)
And that yellow (palomino) horses are more stubborn and less smart than any other color... because that makes sense?!
I have heard the same about Palominos. Another "thing" about them is if you don't ride them for a month, they will turn into broncs |
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Location: Kentucky | Stay away from white feet. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Murphy - 2015-05-30 10:10 AM
Stay away from white feet.
One white foot buy 'em, two white feet try 'em, three white feet be on the sly, four white feet pass 'em by. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I love white feet, Palominos and Paints, and only geldings. People have a heyday with me. lol |
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Location: North Dakota | dianeguinn - 2015-05-30 8:46 PM
I love white feet, Palominos and Paints, and only geldings. People have a heyday with me. lol
Me too! I had a palomino mare (with double hair whorls AND a Roman nose gasp!) And a blue eye'd paint gelding with 3 white feet! The horse that's given me the most trouble is the black footed, no white sorrel gelding. Maybe I should start running in all yellow. It might be GOOD luck for us lol.
Edited by cavyrunsbarrels 2015-05-31 1:04 AM
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Location: Wherever They Send Me | When I was looking for a farrier, I was asked by a farrier what my fastest barrel time was. I said it depends on the size of the pattern. He said he could decrease my time a full second, because there are these shoes out there that he could get...No, I didnt chose him as my farrier. Note: My horses are 3D horses. |
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Location: Florida | I heard from the cowboys that blue eyes moon blind. |
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| cheryl makofka - 2015-05-28 10:32 PM ndcowgirl - 2015-05-28 9:07 PM I've heard the tobacco for worming and the water balloon for rearing. I knew of someone that thought if you wacked a horse on top of the head with a training stick it would teach them to put their head down. Tobacco for worming has actually been proven to be effective and published in scholarly veterinary journals back in the 70's or 80's and still holds true today as per my vet, I haven't tried it yet, but the tobacco paralyzes the worms so they let go of the intestine and the horses develop diarrhea and poop the worms out. The amount is supposedly the same amount as a dip of chewing tobacco
ok - I gotta say it ... please find me a source for that one.
I only know of it ancedotally from my grandfather. I don't believe it was every "proven" in a scholarly journal of reputation that you could worm a horse with tabacco. |
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Location: Oz, Kansas | My horse that I had as a teen that I got off the track would over reach all the time & his shoes would click or he would pull them off. When I explained this to my farrier at the time he told me everytime he over reached I needed to whack him to shorten his stride. I just shook my head over that one & never used him again. I was amazed that he no longer pulled shoes when he was properly trimmed. |
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Location: Phoenix | komet. - 2015-05-28 8:50 PM mtcanchazer - 2015-05-28 10:48 PM cavyrunsbarrels - 2015-05-28 9:39 PM mtcanchazer - 2015-05-28 10:16 PM ndcowgirl - 2015-05-28 8:07 PM I've heard the tobacco for worming and the water balloon for rearing. I knew of someone that thought if you wacked a horse on top of the head with a training stick it would teach them to put their head down. I've heard the tobacco for worming too...not sure if it is true or not...my dad claims so.
The one that peeves me the most is putting a horse on barrels will ruin them. Grrr.
As for biting the horse, I don't know about that, but if they are being a stink about something, if you twist their ear they pay more attention to the ear than whatever it is you are trying to work with them on.
I did have a great grandfather that bit a cow on the nose when it kicked him.  Or you'll end up with an ear shy horse that to this day won't let you put anything over his head. My grandfather and great grandfather did the ear thing, and they were both good, respectable horsemen and had horses that could be ridden by pretty much anyone from kids to older people. I wouldn't do it in ever circumstance or on every horse or every day.
But mules are kind of the same. If they get stubborn, hold your hand over their nose til they can't breathe and put a clod of dirt in their mouth when they open it. Once they start thinking about the clod of dirt in their mouth, they forget whatever they were being stubborn about and do what you wanted them to do in the first place. Oh Man!! That's just mean!!! 
My dad did this once. He was helping a girl at a rodeo with a horse that would just dick around in the box. He rubbed some dirt in his mouth, sent her in the box and he was so distracted by the dirt that he didn't have time to fidget around and be stupid. She had a great run. |
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Location: Phoenix | Anyone heard of giving a horse whiskey if they are tying up? I've heard that.
Also heard that if a horse rolls al the way over--his value increases. On the other hand, also heard that if thy DO roll all the way over it means that they need adjusted. I would think it means they don't need adjusted. We'll never know! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Had someone tell me that her dad would give disel to his track horses when they had a cold, would squirt it down their throat befor a race.  |
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| Most of these posts are down right scary, poor horses if these things were done to them. |
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Location: Montana | hammer_time - 2015-06-01 5:07 PM Anyone heard of giving a horse whiskey if they are tying up? I've heard that. Also heard that if a horse rolls al the way over--his value increases. On the other hand, also heard that if thy DO roll all the way over it means that they need adjusted. I would think it means they don't need adjusted. We'll never know!
Not sure about the whiskey thing...don't think it would do a thing because grain kind of naturally ferments after a horse eats it, or so I have read.  |
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | My mom has a nice little mare that my daughter is in love with. She has told Mackenzie that she can start riding her and start her on the barrel pattern but my aunt is having a fit because "All barrel horses are just hot heads." I seriously want to deck her when such stupid words come out of her mouth.
I remember too growing up, I use to always hear dark colored hooves were "good & strong" but light colored hooves were "poor & weak."
Edited by Rolling J 2015-06-01 10:04 PM
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| When I was looking at my off the track QH gelding I was told he was too big to be a barrel horse (16'2)and his SI was to high and I'd never get him to shut down and turn a barrel. Challenge accepted. He runs low 17s on standard patterns, won a few barrel races and is consistently in the 1/2 d. He doesn't know he's big LOL |
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